Beaver [he/him]

Master of Reality

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • A sense of the PRC’s demographic structure and geographic disparity thus explains why the CCP has publicly called for a technology and manufacturing moonshot even as it deliberately engineered the destruction of over one trillion dollars of software company share value—without, it must be said, impeding in any evident way its continued progress in telecom, chip design, or export manufacturing.

    Line go down… but industry more productive?! stonks-down

    This is a pretty interesting read. The author is correctly identifying a major upending of US economic power… but the liberal ideological blinders are really hampering him from arriving at some obvious conclusions about what the US could be doing to maintain their dominant position.











  • My teacher went on a long rant about how the Mexican/American War of the 1848s was totally justified because of the provocations and corruption of the Mexican government, and how they weren’t doing enough development in Texas, and in any case Texas was ethnically white and should have belonged to the USA anyhow. It took me years before I thought about how weird that rant was.